The biggest was a $698 million bond from New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust backed by performing and re-performing loans bought out of mostly Alt A legacy deals.

JPMorgan Chase ranked first among all non-agency jumbo originators in 1Q17, funding $10.88 billion in product. Wells Fargo was second…

Purchase loans accounted for a whopping 61.9 percent of the agency MBS market in May…

PennyMac sourced 92.7 percent of its government-insured loans from correspondents…

The credit enhancement on the triple-A bonds is a hefty 34.9 percent, according to KBRA.

Purchase-mortgage business at Fannie and Freddie was up a solid 15.5 percent from April, hitting $36.78 billion, tops so far in 2017.

Depositories reported $3.56 billion of mortgage-banking income for 1Q17, a 35 percent sequential decline.

TD Bank is by far the biggest bank investor in card ABS, and in ABS overall, but its $12.71 billion portfolio of card ABS was down some $702.6 million from December.

Agency MBS data suggest the purchase market hit its low spot in January and has been slowing building momentum ever since…

Much of the growth in MBS investments came from two large thrifts: Charles Schwab Bank and E*Trade Bank…